[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":497},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-tai":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":181},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":167,"date":168,"description":13,"extension":169,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":170,"navigation":171,"order":172,"palaces":6,"path":173,"seo":174,"series":6,"sitemap":175,"star":6,"stem":176,"tags":177,"__hash__":180},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai.md","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":156},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,36,42,46,49,52,55,58,62,65,68,71,75,78,81,94,97,111,115,121,124,129,132,137,140,145,148],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",[11,15,16],{},"Heaven should be above; Earth should be below. Now they are reversed: yang qi rising, yin qi descending, the two meeting in the middle. Meeting is interchange. Interchange, and qi opens. The hexagram that does not open is its reverse: Standstill, Pi 否.",[11,18,19],{},"So Tai is not empty talk that “everything is fine.” It is opening. Ask about a matter and draw Tai: above and below, inside and outside, you and the other person, this while, are open. When it is open, do the work. Do not only take photos as a souvenir.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"why-tai-comes-after-lü-履","Why Tai comes after Lü 履",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xugua"," says: 「履而泰，然後安。」 Before it is Lü, walking carefully, by the rules. Walk steadily, then Tai comes.",[11,34,35],{},"This line is useful for a reading. Draw Tai and it is often not pie falling from the sky. The careful stretch before is starting to show. The people you should see, you have seen; the road that should open, has opened. If someone has done nothing, suddenly asks “will I suddenly get rich” and draws Tai, I still ask: have you trodden? Tai without Lü is more like a window of luck. Windows close.",[11,37,27,38,41],{},[29,39,40],{},"Tuan"," says 「小往大來，吉亨」. The small, the unfavorable, go out; the great, the useful, come in. Draw Tai and whatever you asked, you can match this: old resistance retreats, new conditions come. But small going and great coming is not forever. Tai’s next hexagram is Pi. In fullness, if you do not know how to hold back, opening becomes blockage.",[21,43,45],{"id":44},"career-and-wealth-you-can-push-do-not-push-full","Career and wealth: you can push, do not push full",[11,47,48],{},"Ask about career and draw Tai: good for expanding, talking, taking a plan out of the drawer. People are willing to match; resources are more in place. Interviews, cooperation, a launch, moving house, going public: all Tai’s application scenes.",[11,50,51],{},"For wealth, Tai is like a waterway open. What should come in, comes in; terms that should be talked, can be talked. You can invest, add stakes, and still leave a cut for “Tai will turn to Pi.” My teaching is earthy: in a Tai year thicken the principal. Do not fill the leverage. When it is open everyone is optimistic. Optimism is Pi’s seed.",[11,53,54],{},"Tai has a line often skipped: nine in the third, 「無平不陂，無往不復」. No road that is only level, never sloping; no momentum that only goes and never returns. Draw nine in the third: the matter is still good, but you already have to start guarding a turn. This is Tai’s most teacher-like sentence.",[11,56,57],{},"Upper six, 「城復于隍」: the wall collapses back into the moat. Tai at the end: what was built will collapse back to its original state. Draw the upper six: not telling you to despair. Telling you not to add another storey. First reinforce, first hold back.",[21,59,61],{"id":60},"people-and-love-when-it-is-open-come-and-go-do-not-pretend-to-be-busy","People and love: when it is open, come and go; do not pretend to be busy",[11,63,64],{},"Ask about love and draw Tai: the relationship is open. If you are single, it is easier to meet the right occasion, the right person, and both are willing to go forward. If you are already together, Tai is making up, getting the words open, qi that can push the relationship toward marriage or living together.",[11,66,67],{},"When it is open, the worst is pretending to be busy. The other person puts out a hand and you say wait a little more: Tai’s window passes. Of course also do not, once it is open, marry, partner, stuff all life decisions into the same week. Tai gives you a road open, not thinking it through for you.",[11,69,70],{},"Workplace people and Tai: above and below are easier to talk to. Good for communicating, asking for support, taking a misunderstanding apart. Words that would not go in before, spoken now, have a better chance of being heard.",[21,72,74],{"id":73},"what-tai-really-teaches-in-ease-is-how-not-to-finish-it","What Tai really teaches in ease is how not to finish it",[11,76,77],{},"Modern people who draw a lucky hexagram easily do two things: set off fireworks, or think they finally guessed right. Tai encourages neither.",[11,79,80],{},"Tai encourages you, while it is open, to do three concrete things:",[82,83,84,88,91],"ol",{},[85,86,87],"li",{},"Push the matter that should be pushed. Do not wait for a more perfect time. Now is it.",[85,89,90],{},"Be a little better to people who helped you, matched you. Opening is everyone opening together.",[85,92,93],{},"Leave a back hand. Nine in the third already forecast that the level will become a slope. Cash, credit, the body: do not use them up in Tai.",[11,95,96],{},"Put it this way and Tai is not chicken soup. It is a pass that says “you can walk now.” Passes have an expiry.",[11,98,99,100,105,106,110],{},"If you also want to see what to do when it is closed, the next piece is the reverse: ",[101,102,104],"a",{"href":103},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning | Hexagram 12 How to Read: Getting Through Standstill",". The caution before Tai can be understood from Lü’s spirit. To hold Tai, Qian (Modesty) 謙 is very useful: ",[101,107,109],{"href":108},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning | Hexagram 15 How to Read: All Six Lines Fortunate",".",[21,112,114],{"id":113},"i-ching-tai-faq","I Ching Tai FAQ",[11,116,117],{},[118,119,120],"strong",{},"Is Tai great luck, can I do anything?",[11,122,123],{},"The large direction is luck, opening. Still look at the matter you asked and the line you are on. Tai of the upper six: luck is already being taken back. Illegal, harming the body, harming people: will not become correct because you drew Tai.",[11,125,126],{},[118,127,128],{},"I drew Tai and the other person has not replied. Is the reading wrong?",[11,130,131],{},"You may not have asked the same thing. You asked “is this relationship open,” the hexagram says open; the other person may have asked “should I go public now.” Open does not mean both have the same rhythm. Tai gives conditions, not action on the same day.",[11,133,134],{},[118,135,136],{},"How is Tai different from Qian 乾?",[11,138,139],{},"Qian is you yourself having to be strong, to advance. Tai is above and below meeting, the environment opening with you. Qian can fly by itself in adversity. Tai is more like time, place, and people happening to be on the same side. Draw Tai and do nothing yourself: opening is also wasted. Draw Qian and the environment is very blocked: you have to force through yourself, and the cost is different.",[11,141,142],{},[118,143,144],{},"How do I know Tai is starting to turn to Pi?",[11,146,147],{},"In people, hearts start not meeting; meetings start spinning empty; promises start delaying: qi is scattering. If a changing line goes to the upper six, or the original hexagram Tai changes to Pi: that is in plain writing. 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Bi is indeed closeness, attaching, alliance.",{},{"path":188,"title":189,"description":190,"meta":191},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbi_grace","I Ching Bi (Grace) Meaning: Hexagram 22","Draw Bi (Grace) 賁 and students often split in two camps. One feels: time to dress, packaging, renovation, a wedding, an image project.",{},{"path":193,"title":194,"description":195,"meta":196},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbo","I Ching Bo Meaning: Hexagram 23 Explained","Draw Bo 剝 and in class someone’s face sinks first. Bo sounds like being pared, hollowed. Students often say straight: it is over, luck is falling.",{},{"path":198,"title":199,"description":200,"meta":201},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fcui","I Ching Cui Meaning: Hexagram 45 Explained","Gou 姤 is meeting. Met, things gather. Gathering is Cui 萃. Students drawing Cui easily think liveliness: a party, many people, a gathering.",{},{"path":203,"title":204,"description":205,"meta":206},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdaguo","I Ching Da Guo Meaning: Hexagram 28","Draw Da Guo 大過 and in class the sentence I most often hear is: it is over, I made a great error. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":208,"title":209,"description":210,"meta":211},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdaxu","I Ching Da Xu Meaning: Hexagram 26 Explained","Draw Da Xu 大畜 and students most often hear two sentences. One: about to make it, a great accumulation is coming. One: keep saving, move nothing.",{},{"path":213,"title":214,"description":215,"meta":216},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdayou","I Ching Da You Meaning: Hexagram 14","Draw Da You 大有 and the first sentence I most often hear in class is: I have made it, I can harvest. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":218,"title":219,"description":220,"meta":221},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdazhuang","I Ching Da Zhuang Meaning: Hexagram 34","Draw Da Zhuang 大壯 and the most common mistake is to treat it as Zhen 震. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":223,"title":224,"description":225,"meta":226},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fding","I Ching Ding Meaning: Hexagram 50 Explained","What Ding 鼎 most often has written wrong is not a line text. It is the picture. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":228,"title":229,"description":230,"meta":231},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdui","I Ching Dui Meaning: Hexagram 58 Explained","Dui 兌 sounds pleasant. Lake, joy, the mouth, speaking, being glad. Students drawing it often translate at once: this matter will be very pleasant.",{},{"path":233,"title":234,"description":235,"meta":236},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdun","I Ching Dun Meaning: Hexagram 33 Explained","Draw Dun 遯 and the first thing students say is: do I have to run? Is it over? Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":238,"title":239,"description":240,"meta":241},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffeng","I Ching Feng Meaning: Hexagram 55 Explained","Draw Feng 豐 and the first sentence I hear in class is: we have made it. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn how abundance changes the reading.",{},{"path":243,"title":244,"description":245,"meta":246},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffu","I Ching Fu Meaning: Hexagram 24 Explained","Draw Fu 復 and in class someone often exhales at once: the turn has come, I can charge. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":248,"title":249,"description":250,"meta":251},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fge","I Ching Ge Meaning: Hexagram 49 Explained","Draw Ge 革 and students most easily do two opposite things: one, revolution at once; two, fright so nothing moves. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":253,"title":254,"description":255,"meta":256},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgen","I Ching Gen Meaning: Hexagram 52 Explained","Draw Gen 艮 and many people hear two words: you may not move. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":258,"title":259,"description":260,"meta":261},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgou","I Ching Gou Meaning: Hexagram 44 Explained","Guai 夬 is deciding. After deciding you will meet. Meeting is Gou 姤. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":263,"title":264,"description":265,"meta":266},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu","I Ching Gu Meaning: Hexagram 18 Explained","Draw Gu 蠱 and students often wrinkle the face. The character looks like insects, poison, something dirty in the house. Some people say straight: bad luck.",{},{"path":268,"title":269,"description":270,"meta":271},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguai","I Ching Guai Meaning: Hexagram 43 Explained","Yi 益 added to a point must break. Breaking is Guai 夬. Students drawing Guai easily hear war: cut that person, tear that matter, lay it out tonight.",{},{"path":273,"title":274,"description":275,"meta":276},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguan","I Ching Guan Meaning: Hexagram 20 Explained","Draw Guan 觀 and students often say: I will look again. Those three words, look again, are sometimes right, sometimes hiding.",{},{"path":278,"title":279,"description":280,"meta":281},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguimei","I Ching Gui Mei Meaning: Hexagram 54","Draw Gui Mei 歸妹 and the most dangerous classroom reaction is a smile: Gui Mei, a younger sister is to marry — is that not joy.",{},{"path":283,"title":284,"description":285,"meta":286},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fheng","I Ching Heng Meaning: Hexagram 32 Explained","Draw Heng 恆 and some people exhale: it can last. Some are tense: am I bound dead, cannot change? Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":288,"title":289,"description":290,"meta":291},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fhuan","I Ching Huan Meaning: Hexagram 59 Explained","Huan 渙 is most easily heard as one sentence: it is over, we will scatter. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":293,"title":294,"description":295,"meta":296},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian","I Ching Jian Meaning: Hexagram 39 Explained","Draw Jian 蹇 and students’ first reaction is often: it is over, I cannot walk. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":298,"title":299,"description":300,"meta":301},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian_gradual","I Ching Jian (Gradual) Meaning: Hexagram 53","Draw Jian (Gradual) 漸 and students are sometimes disappointed: neither great fortune nor great misfortune — what am I to do.",{},{"path":303,"title":304,"description":305,"meta":306},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning: Hexagram 37","Jia Ren 家人, as the name says, asks about the people of the house and the matters of the house. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":308,"title":309,"description":310,"meta":311},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjie","I Ching Jie Meaning: Hexagram 60 Explained","Jie 節 is popular with modern people. Hear limitation, a system, measure, and it seems at last a hexagram helping you manage self-discipline.",{},{"path":313,"title":314,"description":315,"meta":316},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiji","I Ching Ji Ji Meaning: Hexagram 63 Explained","Ji Ji 既濟 is the hexagram among the sixty-four that looks most orderly. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":318,"title":319,"description":320,"meta":321},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin","I Ching Jin Meaning: Hexagram 35 Explained","Draw Jin 晉 and the room brightens a little. It is a hexagram of going up. Bright is not the same as grabbing. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":323,"title":324,"description":325,"meta":326},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjing","I Ching Jing Meaning: Hexagram 48 Explained","Jing 井 appears, and I first ask students: what do you rely on to feed people, and to feed yourself? Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":328,"title":329,"description":330,"meta":331},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkan","I Ching Kan Meaning: Hexagram 29 Explained","Draw Kan 坎 and in class someone often says straight: water, danger, bad luck. Then asks whether they can change the day and ask again.",{},{"path":333,"title":334,"description":335,"meta":336},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkui","I Ching Kui Meaning: Hexagram 38 Explained","Get the hexagram right first. Kui is Fire over Lake, Li above Dui. Fire above, lake below. Fire burns upward; water seeps down: the two run opposite ways.",{},{"path":338,"title":339,"description":340,"meta":341},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","I Ching Kun Meaning: Hexagram 2 Explained","Draw Kun 坤 and some people are disappointed: it is not Qian 乾, so I cannot charge. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":343,"title":344,"description":345,"meta":346},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun_oppression","I Ching Kun (Oppression) Meaning: Hexagram 47","Draw Kun (Oppression) 困 and the first sentence I hear in class is: it is over — how long must I be unlucky. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":348,"title":349,"description":350,"meta":351},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fli","I Ching Li Meaning: Hexagram 30 Explained","Draw Li 離 and students often first misread the character. Li, leave. Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",{},{"path":353,"title":354,"description":355,"meta":356},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flin","I Ching Lin Meaning: Hexagram 19 Explained","Draw Lin 臨 and students easily hear: a patron has come, opportunity has come, those above will lift me. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":358,"title":359,"description":360,"meta":361},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv","I Ching Lü Meaning: Hexagram 10 Explained","Draw Lü 履 and students often hear two things. One: Lü is shoes, I will go charge. The other: there is a tiger ahead, I will do nothing.",{},{"path":363,"title":364,"description":365,"meta":366},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv_wanderer","I Ching Lü (Wanderer) Meaning: Hexagram 56","Lü (Wanderer) 旅 appears, and a person is usually not on their own kang. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":368,"title":369,"description":370,"meta":371},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":373,"title":374,"description":375,"meta":376},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":103,"title":378,"description":379,"meta":380},"I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":382,"title":383,"description":384,"meta":385},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":108,"title":387,"description":388,"meta":389},"I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":391,"title":392,"description":393,"meta":394},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":396,"title":397,"description":398,"meta":399},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":401,"title":402,"description":403,"meta":404},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":406,"title":407,"description":408,"meta":409},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":411,"title":412,"description":413,"meta":414},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":416,"title":417,"description":418,"meta":419},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":173,"title":5,"description":13,"meta":421},{},{"path":423,"title":424,"description":425,"meta":426},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":428,"title":429,"description":430,"meta":431},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":433,"title":434,"description":435,"meta":436},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":438,"title":439,"description":440,"meta":441},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":443,"title":444,"description":445,"meta":446},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":448,"title":449,"description":450,"meta":451},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoxu","I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":453,"title":454,"description":455,"meta":456},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":458,"title":459,"description":460,"meta":461},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":463,"title":464,"description":465,"meta":466},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":468,"title":469,"description":470,"meta":471},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":473,"title":474,"description":475,"meta":476},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":478,"title":479,"description":480,"meta":481},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":483,"title":484,"description":485,"meta":486},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":488,"title":489,"description":490,"meta":491},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":493,"title":494,"description":495,"meta":496},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715771088]